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Word: laboration (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1970-1979
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...supports the woman's right to choose. But the trend of recent legislation is distinctly anti-abortion, the result of an extremely well-organized and funded "Pro-life" movement (which some link to the New Right). On the federal level, the 1976-7 Hyde Amendment, a rider on the Labor-HEW appropriations bill, cut off federally funded abortions except in cases of rape, incest, and "medically necessary" instances, defined by the Supreme Court as long-lasting physical or psychological damage to the mother's health...

Author: By Tanya Luhrmann, | Title: The Pro-Choice Argument | 10/25/1979 | See Source »

...means of peaceful solutions rather than military force." Nevertheless, Chinese brutality drove some Tibetans into the mountains to organize guerilla resistance. Their efforts have been futile. Today an occupation army of 300,000 enforces Chinese dictates. Dissentors are publicly executed. Monks who refuse to defrock are interred in labor camps. Between 5000 and 6000 monasteries have been destroyed...

Author: By Elizabeth E. Ryan, | Title: Hello Dalai | 10/24/1979 | See Source »

...wide that listed as many as 841 delegates without offering a clue as to which candidate each was backing. In Dade County, voters had to check off no fewer than 141 names but no more than 188 for their ballots to be valid. In each county, an independent organized labor slate further complicated the options...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Nation: Premature Poll | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...enough. One of his less noted sayings pointed the way not only for inventors but for all those who work with their brains. He plastered his labs with a quotation from Sir Joshua Reynolds: "There is no expedient to which a man will not resort to avoid the real labor of thinking," to which Edison added one of his own: "The man who doesn't make up his mind to cultivate the habit of thinking misses the greatest pleasures in life." A most unorthodox and in many ways unattractive thinker, Edison nonetheless multiplied the pleasures of life for everyone...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: The Quintessential Innovator | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

...problem is rising production costs, a shortage of skilled labor and, most important, the financial and technical burdens of meeting the increasingly stringent pollution and safety requirements in the European companies' important export market, the U.S. The costs of retooling plants to manufacture cars that meet U.S. standards will add about 20% to the sticker price and cut deeply into profit margins. Lamborghini, which makes only eight to ten cars a month, has already written off the U.S. market rather than invest the money required to meet its specifications. Maserati, which sends half of its output...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Business: Exotic Steals at $40,000 | 10/22/1979 | See Source »

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